Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solid junior Jim Corcoran (158 1bs.) returns after going 7-5-1 as a sophomore. He will be followed by blind sophomore Ed Bordley (167 1bs.), who overcame his handicap to win a starting spot and three matches as a freshman. He has worked hard and is vastly improved over last year, Lee said yesterday...
...knowledge of actual conditions in other parts of the world, which I found understandable in view of the much more advanced state of their technical civilization and the vastness of the country, which in many ways formed a world apart. These latter characteristics were to develop later into a handicap in the conduct of their policies as a leading power in the world...
...point where we haven't yet built up to the limit that we can have under Vladivostok. So I think it's just a lack of knowledge, and it's a very unwise position for him. It gives the Soviets more and it tends to handicap...
...dingy office building next to a false teeth factory in Austin and found Bill Broyles, an ex-Marine who was then an assistant to the Houston school superintendent. Like virtually everyone else Levy hired, Broyles was under 30 and almost innocent of journalistic experience. That was no handicap. After its first year, Texas Monthly won a National Magazine Award for specialized journalism, the first time the magazine industry's Oscar has gone to a newcomer...
...major handicap for Carter in holding on to key components of his coalition could be that he is a "born again" evangelical Christian. Many Catholics, who have not always fared well at the hands of Southern Baptists, are worried about the fact. So are some Jews, who constitute only 4% of the electorate but are highly important in key states like New York, California and Florida. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, a deeply religious Protestant, suggests that Carter's brand of evangelicalism also unsettles many other Protestants because it implies that "he has a direct line...